I got a surprise in the mail the other day when an unexpected package showed up from Gregory of Nine Pockets fame, and it was a great one- all 9 cards I was needing to finish off the 1990-91 Upper Deck NHL set! This makes it my third completed NHL set, first one completed the natural way- piecemeal and over time! A huge thanks to Gregory for the assist, and also to Shane of Shoebox Legends, who sent me about 100 cards I needed a while back. Are you still out there Shane? I got a box of Series 2 for Christmas either last year or the year before.
Set: 1990-91 Upper Deck
Set Size: 550 cards
Began Collecting: January 31st, 2015
First card added to collection: #534, Bobby Holik
Date completed: July 19th, 2021, 2361 days according to Calculator.net
What I've scanned so far: 1990-91 Upper Deck
Thoughts: The set is available with multiple holograms on the back...as much as I want to care about that, I don't, and my set is a mix of all three. If I come across variations in my duplicates I keep them but I don't seek them out. The first Upper Deck set is the first I completed in this sport, and in my 30th anniversary of buying Upper Deck cards...even though I didn't start watching the NHL until late 2016, I actually got to see one of the players in this set in action, live, in Jaromir Jagr.
Favorite memory of the set: For my birthday in 2017, my Mom gave me a copy of the Jagr card, it was the first specific hockey card she bought for me.
Last card needed: #332 Donald Dufresne
Sorry for the crappy picture, my scanner is not plugged in during the course of my typing project.
Gorgeous set. Awesome design. Strong rookie card class. One of my all-time favorite hockey card sets. It's just a shame the San Jose Sharks didn't come around one year earlier.
ReplyDeleteIt always seems like the sets before all the current teams are missing something to me
DeleteAwesome! Congrats!
ReplyDeletethank you!
DeleteHappy to help, Billy! And it's only fitting that the final card you needed for your first hockey set completion shows a player who's missing a tooth, don't you think?
ReplyDeleteHaha, I didn't even think of that, but yeah, quintessential hockey!
DeleteAlways nice to get an assist from a fellow blogger (or two.) This will always be one of my favorite sets. Congrats on completing it!
ReplyDeleteI think Shane has run away to YouTube :(
Thank you! Not a huge YouTube fan...I have a few hundred videos on there but almost entirely nature and car stuff.
DeleteHey, awesome! Glad seeing that someone else has/had Donald Dufresne on their wantlist. I think I'm the only Donald Dufresne collector in existence!
ReplyDeleteI might have a pile of copies of that UD card from when I thought hoarding them was a good idea. Sorry, maybe my fault it took you this long to get you one.
Haha! Well I needed 8 others too, he just happened to be the last one to come out of the envelope
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